General Knowledge
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This winter sport involves sliding down an icy track on a sled, feet-first and lying on your back.
What is luge?
This unit measures electrical resistance and is named after a German physicist.
What is the ohm?
This renewable energy source is widely used across Australia's sunny regions, with rooftop installations common on suburban homes
What is solar power
This ancient Egyptian structure, built as a tomb for pharaohs, is the only surviving wonder of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This inventor is credited with creating the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles, with five championships.
What is Brazil?
This form of energy is associated with the motion of an object, calculated as one-half mass times velocity squared.
What is kinetic energy?
This Australian city is home to the headquarters of engineering and mining giant BHP.
What is Melbourne?
This wall, built to divide a German city during the Cold War, fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of Communist rule in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This ancient civilization built the city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains.
What is the Inca civilization?
This basketball player holds the NBA record for most career points, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's longstanding record in 2023.
Who is LeBron James?
This phenomenon explains why light bends when passing from one medium into another, such as from air into water.
What is refraction?
This form of engineering deals with the design and analysis of aircraft, and is a growing field in Australia due to companies like Boeing Defence Australia.
What is aerospace engineering?
This war, fought between 1939 and 1945, was the deadliest conflict in human history, involving more than 30 countries.
What is World War II?
This organ in the human body is the only one capable of regenerating itself to nearly its original size after significant tissue loss.
What is The Liver?
This tennis player has won a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles, the most of any player, male or female, in the Open Era.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This theoretical temperature, equal to -273.15°C, represents the point at which particles have minimal thermal motion and is the zero point of the Kelvin scale.
What is absolute zero?
This Australian telecommunications engineering project, launched in 2009, aimed to deliver high-speed broadband internet to the majority of Australian homes and businesses via a mix of fibre, fixed wireless, and satellite technology.
What is the National Broadband Network (NBN)?
This 1789 revolution overthrew the French monarchy and led to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte less than a decade later.
What is the French Revolution?
This 1867 purchase saw the United States acquire a large northern territory from Russia for about two cents an acre, a deal initially mocked in the press.
What is the Alaska Purchase (Seward's Folly)?
This 1985 chess match saw a 22-year-old Soviet grandmaster become the youngest World Chess Champion in history, defeating the reigning champion in a rematch.
Who is Garry Kasparov?
This subatomic particle, predicted by Peter Higgs in 1964, was finally confirmed to exist by CERN scientists in 2012, explaining how particles acquire mass.
What is the Higgs boson?
This Australian software engineering company, founded in Sydney in 2002, became one of the country's most successful tech exports and is known for project management tools like Jira and Confluence.
What is Atlassian?
This 1215 English document, forced upon King John by rebellious barons, established the principle that even the monarch was subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?